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Observations on Nuclearia simplex

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Nuclearia simplex Cienkowski, 1865

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Late state of a binary fission. Two optical sections.

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Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D E-M5 II. DOF images.

Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Four slides, two images with a marked version each.

First couple:	Curved pseudopodia (arrow), typical for nucleariid ameba, prey (arrowhead).
Second couple:	Nucleus (arrow).

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Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D E-M5 II. DOF images.

Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Nuclearia simplex catches Goniomonas truncata, a cryptomonad.
Three slides, two images, the second image has a marked version.

First:	Cryptomonad cell ist approaching.
Second:	Two Nuclearia cells in the final phase of binary fission, the Cyrptomonad sticks to an axopod of a Nuclearia cell.
Third:	Annotated version of the previous image. Nucleus (arrow), remnants of the junction of cells after division (arrowhead), contractile vacuoles (double arrowhead), prey (double headed arrow).

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Place name: Tropical freshwater aquarium
Latitude: 54.3018013 Longitude: 10.07120132

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D E-M5 II. DOF images.

Place name: Pond near Hausen (Hessisch Lichtenau, Germany)
Latitude: 51.21453 Longitude: 9.868894

Microscope Zeiss Axioscope, camera DSLR.

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